showed it to a mate and his missus last night... seen it so many times now i sorta wasn't sure whether it translated to the screen. they pretty much shat themselves
i think it's 270-280 right at the jump, and if you listen you can hear you'd JUST stomped on the go pedal too here's the last visible frame less than one second before take off Image Unavailable, Please Login
oh, and here's the *actual* shot i took when you see my fingers come into frame on the left about 10 seconds before. i might put this one in the vid rather than the 300+ one. Image Unavailable, Please Login
just analysing the footage and doing the math.... nerd: ) it's about 2.5-3 seconds for which we're bouncing (hard to tell when we first took off, just when we first landed ), at say 270kph we travelled 180-200m in that time. think of it from a bystanders perspective.... they would have seen a black lamborghini briefly touch the ground in two places for the length of a football field. hmmmm the first bounce lasted 0.7-0.8 seconds... so say 50-60 metres. the second bounce was 0.4-0.5 seconds so 30-40 metres, and the last bit is a bit difficult to tell as we're testing the quality of the roof lining with our melons attached pics: #1: what the view normally looks like #2: at the peak of a jump and looking skyward #3: landing 0.24 seconds (6 frames) later with an alarming view of the tarmac Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
makes me think my g isn't suited to high speed stuff that isn't flat . didn't here anyone else say they had an issue at that point . very good chance most were at speed at the same point in the road . dave's g is an 04 and he said his car was very stable at 300 + . i never got the chance to swap with him but should of . never once had an issue in the ferrari at any speed .
vid of Guy (MOTOR photographer) and his amazing sticky tripod setup... http://aussieexotics.com/forum/index.php/topic,137.0.html
I had a couple of similar "moments" earlier in the trip and found softening the shockies a notch made it better. Maybe the 04 and the 06 G models were on different settings or different shock specs. At the end of the day though, high speed and bumps aren't a good recipe.
I haven't had my 06 over 250 km/h but the 04 was fine at higher speeds. The faster steering ratio in the 06 might contribute to some twitchiness perhaps. My SE feels better over high speed bumps than my 04 probably because it has the firmer sports suspension. It rides harder 'round town though...
The TT launch story is in this month's MOTOR. I'm guessing January for our story from something someone said.
There is a pic in this months Motor from last year's EITO relating to the Cannonball Run being re-introduced to the NT........ it's in the first few pages.
Even the Enzo will get airborne over crests if you're going fast enough; especially when the wings go into "top speed" mode.
I could almost be tempted by the Cannonball if it had a large part in the NT, but I wouldn't be keen to send $10K to a stranger in case they ran off with all the dough. Anyone planning to register for it?
this wasn't an aero issue specifically, at those speeds any of those cars would become a kite if they got enought air under them. scud's lambo was as planted on good road and crests as well as anything else. it didn't absorb the bumps all that well though, subsequent bumps and undulations would appreciably add to the car's instability. i didn't feel confident in it over 240kph, in the ferrari the spidey-sense wouldn't tingle until 270, i think i only saw 280 for a couple brief moments in the orange gallardo but that felt planted. last year mhh's G felt rock solid, and nev's murci was disturbingly 'safe feeling' at 300.
